Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-02-27
Space Sci.Rev. 108 (2003) 577-708
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Space Science Reviews, in press, 132 pages (full paper available at ftp://astro.esa.int/pub/ffavata/Papers/ssr-preprint.pdf)
Scientific paper
10.1023/B:SPAC.0000007491.80144.
Coronal astronomy is by now a fairly mature discipline, with a quarter century having gone by since the detection of the first stellar X-ray coronal source (Capella), and having benefitted from a series of major orbiting observing facilities. Several observational characteristics of coronal X-ray and EUV emission have been solidly established through extensive observations, and are by now common, almost text-book, knowledge. At the same time the implications of coronal astronomy for broader astrophysical questions (e.g. Galactic structure, stellar formation, stellar structure, etc.) have become appreciated. The interpretation of stellar coronal properties is however still often open to debate, and will need qualitatively new observational data to book further progress. In the present review we try to recapitulate our view on the status of the field at the beginning of a new era, in which the high sensitivity and the high spectral resolution provided by Chandra and XMM-Newton will address new questions which were not accessible before.
Favata Fabio
Micela Giuseppina
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